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<blockquote data-quote="Buffalobob" data-source="post: 86033" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>My Days Under A Tree</p><p></p><p>Early season 3 day Muzzleloader deer opened last Thursday. I figured the deer would be in rut and I knew where there were two bucks, one of which had narrowly missed being spitted by an arrow on September 15. Went with high hope however optomism was totally unjustified by the facts. Saw so many does and fawns I had to take off my shoes and begin counting on my toes. Nada horn in sight.</p><p></p><p>Family of river otters came swimming up the Potomac and right in front of me big papa otter catches a 2-3 pound carp. They all get to squabbling and argueing over who eats first and who eats last. Just the most noisy racket you could imagine. Of course papa wins and eats for a few minutes and then mama takes over. About this time the local bald eagle arrives and starts dive bombing the otters, but is too smart to actually land and fight it out with them. Mama chews on the fish for a while and then lets one of the two young ones have a turn. Amazingly, mama and papa just swim off upstream and leave the two young ones there and then one young one finishes and takes off upstream and leaves the last one who merrily crunches away for about five minutes and then swims off upstream. When it was all said and done they did not even eat half of the carp.</p><p></p><p>I pondered the lack of any bucks seen and decided to go back on Saturday and sit under a different tree. Probability of rain was 90 percent and sure enough it rained 90 percent of the day. I guess I had so much fun that I will take my 17 Rem and see if I can have any luck with a turkey this Sat. Probability of rain is 32 %. The turkeys do not come down off the mountain to the river for a drink if it is raining, so it is easy money that I will just get wet and kill nothing, again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buffalobob, post: 86033, member: 8"] My Days Under A Tree Early season 3 day Muzzleloader deer opened last Thursday. I figured the deer would be in rut and I knew where there were two bucks, one of which had narrowly missed being spitted by an arrow on September 15. Went with high hope however optomism was totally unjustified by the facts. Saw so many does and fawns I had to take off my shoes and begin counting on my toes. Nada horn in sight. Family of river otters came swimming up the Potomac and right in front of me big papa otter catches a 2-3 pound carp. They all get to squabbling and argueing over who eats first and who eats last. Just the most noisy racket you could imagine. Of course papa wins and eats for a few minutes and then mama takes over. About this time the local bald eagle arrives and starts dive bombing the otters, but is too smart to actually land and fight it out with them. Mama chews on the fish for a while and then lets one of the two young ones have a turn. Amazingly, mama and papa just swim off upstream and leave the two young ones there and then one young one finishes and takes off upstream and leaves the last one who merrily crunches away for about five minutes and then swims off upstream. When it was all said and done they did not even eat half of the carp. I pondered the lack of any bucks seen and decided to go back on Saturday and sit under a different tree. Probability of rain was 90 percent and sure enough it rained 90 percent of the day. I guess I had so much fun that I will take my 17 Rem and see if I can have any luck with a turkey this Sat. Probability of rain is 32 %. The turkeys do not come down off the mountain to the river for a drink if it is raining, so it is easy money that I will just get wet and kill nothing, again. [/QUOTE]
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